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Can History Tell the Truth?

“I know it is the fashion to say,” George Orwell once wrote, “that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is...

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Amusing Ourselves To Death

I’ve read Orwell’s 1984. I’m currently reading Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business and I recently ordered Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary...

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Proximate vs Root Causes: Why You Should Keep Digging to Find the Answer

“Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.” — Arthur Schopenhauer *** The Basics One of the first principles we learn as babies...

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Complexity Bias: Why We Prefer Complicated to Simple

Complexity bias is a logical fallacy that leads us to give undue credence to complex concepts. Faced with two competing hypotheses, we are likely to choose the most complex one. That’s usually the...

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